Typical Valkyrie armaments included swords, spears, and shields, which they wielded with precision and skill. These defining features are artfully portrayed in Tedesco’s variant cover ...

Skilled in combat and a master at fighting with her enchanted sword Dragonfang, Valkyrie evolved into the modern stereotype of a singularly powerful, alluring and armoured Valkyrie that we have ...

In Old Norse, Valkyrie means “chooser of the slain ... The heads of men are used as weights, their entrails as the warp and weft, a sword is used as the shuttle, and the reels are made ...